Our vision is a world where all women are change agents for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Our Friends Place supports an underserved population in North Texas of young women experiencing abuse, neglect, poverty, and homelessness. Our Friends Place offers support, life skills, and a stable home for young women to reach their goals and build their own future.

In 1987, we opened our first Transitional Living Center with a mission to help young women break generational cycles of abuse, neglect, poverty and homelessness through empowering self-reliance and independence.

Since that day, Our Friends Place has provided a stable place for over 500 young women in Dallas to build the skills and confidence to avoid poverty and homelessness.

As part of the program, every resident enrolls in an education or vocational program, has a job, pays part of their earnings as rent and part to build their savings, while attending weekly group sessions about life and job skills.

In 2017, we created SOAR to Success, an innovative, award-winning homeless prevention program. This non-residential program serves more than over 2,000 youth each year in partnership with schools and youth-serving agencies in North Texas.